Thanks, oisfetz, for the enticing list. I've been impressed with Dohnanyi's Piano Concerti and piano etudes, so I think I'll check into his violin sonata.

About Dohnanyi there's an old and magnificent version by young Ruggero Ricci.
Don't know if it exist on CD.

I'm so sorry I'm late... I had a tough exam yesterday and stepped out TC for a while.

I knew Vieuxtemps, Britten, Gulda and Herbert (I re-listened his second cello concerto last week, many times).

The Gulda concerto is available in video, played by one of the Capuçons, I think. And in cd there's a nice cd with Heinrich Schiff, coupled with the exotic Concerto for Ursula.

The version I've is coupled with a cello concerto by Arthur Sullivan (!)

I know you have (at least) the one by Martin Ostertag. That's the one broadcasted in one of your radio programes many years ago. Gulda's cello concerto was that day's Mistery work.
That was the first time I heard the concerto, and I remember I taped it. I used to tape your complete radio programs, actually.

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   Originally Posted by oisfetz OK, 7th.you'll never answer. It was Friedrich Gulda. His cello concerto is the craziest piece I ever heard. And awfully difficult. That's why nobody ever[/quote plays it live. Only know one recording.

That cello concerto is really crazy. I didn't like a single note of the 1st movement, but I admire those who can perform it. When it was composed? You know really strange stuff.
Can you recommend me some cello concertos, sonatas, etc., in the vein of shostakovich's?
Thanks a lot!

About Gulda's, the CD is german and the booklet in german,but I think it says 1980.
Some other modern pieces (look for Slava!)
Lev KNIPPER c.c.
VAINBERG c.c.
Boris TISCHENKO c.c.
KHTCHATURIAN Concerto-Rhapsody
Nina KOTOVA c.c.
Vladimir VLASOV c.c.
Hans PFITZNER 3 c.c.
BRITTEN symphony for c.and o.

Thanks a lot! I'm always looking for Slava, yes

oisfetz, it's very hard to find your recommendations! :P

Do you know some baroque pieces to play on the cello? Or some recordings too?
Does musicians usually make transcriptions for cello from viola da gamba?

I'm asking this because I would like to explore the baroque repertoire for the cello, but I don't know what to look for.

I just watched The Gulda Cello Concerto on youtube. Played by Gautier Capucon. I must say it is so damn cool!!! Freaking Awesome.

I don't see how it would be much more difficult than Shosta or Elgar but then I again I have absolutely no idea how to play Cello.

But if people are intersted it's on Youtube.

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Yes I did see it. But didn't like it. Mostly because that kind of music is not what I look for.
If it's difficult or not I don't know. It's relative, if you're comparing with Shostakovich or Elgar. They're both very difficult concertos and both very beautiful, except Gulda's (it's a question of taste).